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Un “Hito Importante”: África Finalmente Erradica el Virus de Polio del Continente, Después de Décadas de Trabajo
El continente Africano finalmente está libre de la polio salvaje, 24 años después de que Nelson Mandela ayudase al Rotary International a lanzar su campaña 'Kick Polio Out of Africa'.
A ‘Momentous Milestone’: Africa Finally Eradicates the Wild Polio Virus From its Continent, After Decades of Work
The World Health Organization is celebrating the news that the African continent is finally free of the wild poliovirus, 24 years after Nelson Mandela...
Africa Celebrates One Year Without A Single New Case of Polio
August 11 marked one year since the last wild polio case was detected anywhere on the entire continent of Africa.
Although it does not yet...
India and Southeast Asia Are Now Officially Polio-Free
Older Americans remember when, in the 1940s and 50's, polio crippled about 35,000 people each year. After Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine, the...
World’s Wealthiest Men Join Bill Gates to Raise $4 Billion To End Polio
At the Global Vaccine Summit in Abu Dhabi late last week, the world’s two richest men made a bit of philanthropic history. Carlos Slim...
India Hailed for its First Polio-Free Year
Today marks a milestone in the fight against polio as India celebrates one year since the last recorded case of new polio infection in...
World Landmarks Light-Up With ‘End Polio’ Message in Final Push to Eradicate Disease
What do the Trevi Fountain in Rome, India’s Charminar monument, and the New York Stock Exchange building have in common? Each of these iconic...
Kick Polio Out of Africa Campaign at Victorious End
Rotary International made a promise to help kick polio out of Africa, and this month, with a football signed by Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond...
Polio Patient Lived Amazing Life Inside an Iron Lung
Polio paralyzed Martha Mason from the neck down in 1948, and she spent the rest of her days inside an iron lung, an...
Somalia Once Again Polio-Free, Declares UN
In what is being described as a major victory in the global fight against polio, the United Nations health agency announced yesterday that the...
UN Polio Campaign Underway in Afghanistan to Safeguard Two Million Children
More than two million Afghan children are currently being immunized in a United Nations-backed three-day polio eradication drive following a sixth reported case of...
Polio Vaccines in Somalia
The World Health Organization has launched a five-day polio immunization campaign in Somalia to vaccinate nearly one and a half million children under...
Good News in History, April 12
467 years ago, Cuenca was founded in Ecuador, a city of such beauty that it has become known as the "Athens" of South America....
Good News in History, April 7
93 years ago today, perhaps the greatest American whistleblower in history, Daniel Ellsberg was born. In March of last year, Ellsberg revealed to the...
Good News in History, March 26
49 years ago today, the Biological Weapons Convention, (BWC) entered into force. It's considered to have established a strong global norm against biological weapons...
Good News in History, February 23
5 years ago today, 71-year-old Roy Hodgson overtook Sir Bobby Robson as the oldest man to manage a Premier League football club when his...
Good News in History, January 3
156 years ago today, Emperor Mutsuhito announced the formal conclusion to the Tokugawa Shogunate, and thus launched the Meiji Restoration, one of the great...
Good News in History, November 7
120 years ago today, Konrad Lorenz, the father of modern ethnology and Nobel laureate, was born in Vienna. In 2002, he was ranked as...
Good News in History, October 26
Happy 72nd Birthday to William Collins, better known by his rather eternal moniker, "Bootsy." A bass guitar legend, Bootsy learned how to play in...
Good News in History, October 24
On this day last year, a five-month-old bar-tailed godwit became a world record holder by flying 8,425 miles non-stop from Alaska to Australia in...